Amazon Top 50 Bonus: Children's Comics & Graphic Novels - September 16, 2016

A Bonus list for your Friday afternoon. Here are the Top 50 Children's Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon Friday morning. See About the Amazon Top 50 Lists for more information on how this list is compiled.


1. Ghosts
2. Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #11) *
3. Dog Man
4. Big Nate: From the Top (Kindle)
5. Drama
6. Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #10)
7. Smile
8. Dork Diaries 11: Tales from a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy *
9. Big Nate: Revenge of the Cream Puffs
10. Ghosts (Kindle)
11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
12. The Long Haul (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #9)
13. The Curse of Herobrine: The Ultimate Minecraft Comic Book Volume 1
14. Sisters
15. Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal *
16. A New Class (Star Wars: Jedi Academy #4)
17. El Deafo
18. The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy's Great Idea
19. Big Nate: Revenge of the Cream Puffs (Kindle)
20. Roller Girl
21. Hard Luck (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #8)
22. Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #11) (Kindle) *
23. Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2)
24. Awkward
25. The Baby-Sitters Club: The Truth About Stacey
26. Star Wars: Jedi Academy
27. The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3)
28. The Last Kids on Earth
29. The Baby-Sitters Club: Mary Anne Saves the Day
30. The Baby-Sitters Club: Claudia and Mean Janine
31. Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #6)
32. The Ugly truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #5)
33. Dork Diaries 10: Tales from a Not-So-Perfect Pet Sitter
34. The Pigeon Needs a Bath!
35. The Misadventures of Max Crumbly 1: Locker Hero
36. The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #7)
37. Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4)
38. Dog Man Unleashed (Dog Man #2) *
39. Firelight (Amulet #7)
40. Dog Man (Kindle)
41. I'm a Frog! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
42. The Phantom Bully (Star Wars: Jedi Academy #3)
43. Dork Diaries 9: Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen
44. Return of the Padawan (Star Wars: Jedi Academy #2)
45. The Stonekeeper's Curse (Amulet #2)
46. Big Nate Triple Play Box Set
47. The Stonekeeper (Amulet #1)
48. The Last Council (Amulet #4)
49. Pokémon Adventures (7 Volume Set)
50. Smile and Sisters: The Box Set


Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.

Commentary:

• Is anyone surprised that Ghosts is at the top of the list? It's currently #7 on the overall Amazon books chart. 
• Aside from Raina Telgemeier, who takes up eight of the slots in the top fifty (including four of the top ten), the list is really dominated by hybrid comic-novels, such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and its ilk. In fact, it can be tricky sometimes deciding what the weed out of the Amazon chart for not being comic-like enough. 
• There isn't a lot of overlap between the kids best-sellers list and the regular comics & graphic novels best-sellers list. But there are a few items, listed on both, which gives us a chance to calibrate between the two. The top book on this week's regular Amazon Top 50 Comics chart is the Kindle edition of Big Nate: From the Top, which is #4 on the children's list. Then there's Pokémon Adventures box set, which is #40 on the regular list and #49 on the children's list.